Sunday Monitor at 6 pm Central - (1) bk "Wimp Factor" (2) Daniel Ellsberg

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March 20, 2005: Sunday Monitor

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<> 6:15 pm -- GUEST 1: STEPHEN DUCAT







Stephen Ducat is professor of psychology at the School of Humanities at New College of California, a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice, and a candidate at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. His book is The Wimp Factor: Gender Gaps, Holy Wars, and the Politics of Anxious Masculinity.

This book is incredibly rich and fun to read, bringing in countless examples of popular culture, political rhetoric, cartoons, studies in anthropology and psychology, history, and observations taken from his own clinical psychology practice. Professor Ducat illustrates how men's fear of the feminine has been a powerful, if subterranean, force for centuries, and argues that there is a direct association between the magnitude of a man's femiphobia and his tendency to embrace right-wing political opinions. He takes apart current issues like the environment, or welfare, and also analyzes recent presidents and their attempts to wear the mantle of masculinity.

Pokey says: If you have been relying on reason to understand American politics, and can't make sense of it, read this book!

THE BOOK: The Wimp Factor: Gender Gaps, Holy Wars, and the Politics of Anxious Masculinity, by Stephen Ducat (September 2004, Beacon Press)


<> ~ 6:35 pm -- GUEST 2: DANIEL ELLSBERG



On this weekend marked by worldwide protests against the war in Iraq, we will be joined live by Daniel Ellsberg. He was first on our show last September.

Ellsberg is one of the best-known “whistleblowers” in U.S. history. His distribution of the Pentagon Papers was an act of heroism that did much to sway U.S. public opinion against the Vietnam War, shorten the war, and helped lead to the impeachment of Richard Nixon.

Ellsberg, who earned a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard and also served as a Marine, thought he might go to jail for the rest of his life for his heroic action -- he faced 12 felony counts, with a possible sentence of 115 years. The charges were dismissed in 1973 on grounds of governmental misconduct against him.

Ellsberg's book, Secrets - A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, describing the events in the 1960s and early ’70s that led to his public release of 7,000 pages of top-secret documents on U.S. decision-making in Vietnam. Ellsberg is a vocal anti-war activist, and has been speaking out against the Iraq war since before the war started.

Ellsberg has encouraged whistleblowers both in the U.S. and around the world; he said last fall: "I believe we are in a national crisis, which justifies and requires acts of unauthorized truth-telling."

His Truth Telling Project says it "encourages whistleblowing in the national interest. It urges current and recently retired government officials to reveal the truth to Congress and the public about governmental wrongdoing, lies and cover-up. It aims to change the norms and practices that sustain the cult of secrecy, and to de-legitimize silence that costs lives."

ELLSBERG'S WEBSITE: Truth Telling Project http://www.ellsberg.net/truthtellingproject.html


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